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Who Named It
''Whonamedit?'' is an online English-language dictionary of medical eponyms and the people associated with their identification. Though it is a dictionary, many eponyms and persons are presented in extensive articles with comprehensive bibliographies. The dictionary is hosted in Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ... and was developed by medical historian Ole Daniel Enersen. References External links * Medical websites Medical dictionaries Eponyms in medicine {{online-dict-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Eponyms
Medical eponyms are terms used in medicine which are named after people (and occasionally places or things). In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes of Health held a conference that discussed the naming of diseases and conditions. The conclusion, as summarized in ''The Lancet'', was this: "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder." However, because of the nature of the history of medicine, new discoveries are often referred to using the name of the people who initially made the discovery. * List of eponymous diseases * List of eponymous fractures * List of eponymous medical devices * List of eponymous medical signs * List of eponymous medical treatments * List of eponymous surgical procedures * List of eponymous tests * List of human anatomical parts named after people * List of medical eponyms with Nazi associations * List of orthopaedic eponyms * List of eponyms in neuroscience, neurology and neurosurgery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a Dependencies of Norway, dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also Territorial claims in Antarctica, claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country has a total area of . The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea. The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of Petty kingdoms of Norway, petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Daniel Enersen
Ole Daniel Enersen (14 March 1943 – 1 January 2024) was a Norwegian climber, photographer, journalist, writer and medical historian. Biography In 1965, Enersen made the first ascent of the Trollveggen mountain in Romsdalen, Norway, along with Leif Normann Petterson, Odd Eliassen and Jon Teigland. He was one of the founders of the Association of Norwegian nature photographers (Norske naturfotografer) in 1976, and the first leader of the organisation. In 2000, he published a novel in the fantasy genre, titled ''Dragen som elsket meg'' ("The dragon that loved me"). Enersen published and maintained Who Named It?, a large online dictionary of medical eponyms. Enersen died in Oslo on 1 January 2024, at the age of 80. See also ...
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Medical Websites
Health information on the Internet refers to all health-related information communicated through or available on the Internet. Description The Internet is widely used by the general public as a tool for finding health information. In the late 1990s, researchers noted an increase in Internet users' access to health-related content despite the variation in the quality of information, level of accessibility, and overall health literacy. Access to health information does not guarantee understanding, as health literacy of individuals vary. It is believed patients who know their medical history may learn and interpret this information in a way that benefits them. This, however, is not always the case because online health information is not always peer reviewed. Physicians worry that patients who conduct Internet research on their medical history are at a risk of being misinformed. In 2013, the opinions about the relationship between health care providers and online health information w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Dictionaries
A medical dictionary is a lexicon for words used in medicine. The four major medical dictionaries in the United States are ''Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions'', '' Stedman's'', '' Taber's'', and ''Dorland's''. Other significant medical dictionaries are distributed by Elsevier. Dictionaries often have multiple versions, with content adapted for different user groups. For example Stedman's Concise Medical Dictionary and Dorland's are for general use and allied health care, while the full text editions are reference works used by medical students, doctors, and health professionals. Medical dictionaries are commonly available in print, online, or as downloadable software packages for personal computers and smartphones. History The earliest known glossaries of medical terms were discovered on Egyptian papyrus authored around 1600 B.C. Other precursors to modern medical dictionaries include lists of terms compiled from the Hippocratic Corpus in the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
